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[tongueamok]

Hello, this is Carlisle. I mean, it's not Carlisle as in I'm actually answering you right now, so if you're trying to reply to me at the second, you should probably save your breath because I'm not really here. This is some kind of a recording of my voice, but this is my communicator. I'm going to assume these devices are as common here as they are in other places — not my world, but others, ones more technologically advanced than where I come from— so if you'd like to leave me a message, then you may do so here, or er... Right. Here is fine. So just leave yo— [beep]

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[text]

[tongueamok]

[He texts back this time rather than just talking. Unusual.]

It wasn't a date, and I haven't gotten to use it yet.

[He's had some other problems, like nearly being murdered by a man who looks just like him.]

[unfollowing]

if you haven't even used it yet, you can't tell me it wasn't a date

'just let me stand in your shadow' is a really sweet thing to say btw

[tongueamok]

I meant it literally.

[Sweet things are apparently out of Carlisle's reach.]

[unfollowing]

that makes it even sweeter because it has, like, layers of meaning

i had no idea you were such a romantic

[tongueamok]

I can practically hear you jumping to conclusions through the written word alone.

in which emily is a nerd and a little shit

[unfollowing]

you realize romanticism was a literary and artistic movement, right? it focused on emotions, expressed them calmly, gave importance to nature -- that covers the way you talk to glacius

[tongueamok]

I assume that was a movement where you come from, because I've never heard of it.

[Still not talking about this.]

[unfollowing]

yes. mainly a western movement. in some places it was so influential that it still affects the way we write

what i'm saying is that i recognize a seed of emotional truth in what you say, carlisle

[tongueamok]

You are imagining things that are not there, Emily.

[unfollowing]

please. ask anyone who was there how you two looked together

[tongueamok]

[It takes a moment for this message to come in.]

And what does that mean?

[unfollowing]

[Every second that passes by before that response is just another reminder that she's right.]

why? worried about something?

[tongueamok]

I only worry for Glacius and how others might think of him.

[Good cover, Carlisle.]

[unfollowing]

oh my god. are you being self-deprecating right now? like what would people think of glacius for being seen with you?

[tongueamok]

They might think him burdened with keeping an eye on me.

[So that'd be a yes on the self-deprecation.]

[unfollowing]

it so did not look like that

[tongueamok]

Perhaps not to you with your "romanticism."

[unfollowing]

trust me, nobody thinks you're a burden to glacius

[tongueamok]

I wouldn't say 'nobody.'

[Oh.]

[unfollowing]

who. who would look at you two together and think that

[tongueamok]

I would.

[unfollowing]

[Oh.]

why?

[tongueamok]

He's far kinder a being than I deserve to have around, for one.

[unfollowing]

i totally get that feeling, but you're wrong. glacius chooses to spend time with us because he likes us. are you really arrogant enough to think he shouldn't be around you?

[tongueamok]

I have been told nearly my entire life that people shouldn't be around me. It's not that hard to believe he shouldn't, either.